25.9 percent of COVID-19 tests in January came back positive, according to the State of Delaware.
Of the 241,178 tests administered to Delaware residents in January, 62,499 were positive.
By January, Delaware had 226,915 total confirmed COVID-19 cases since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020.
The virus and its complications have claimed 2,398 lives by the end of January.
Governor John C. Carney declared a new state of emergency in Delaware in early 2022 as COVID-19 cases surged in the winter season. The state of emergency requires indoor masking for everyone in schools.
The recent surge of the Omicron COVID-19 variant caused “an unpleasant mixture of dread, fatigue and deja vu” almost two years into the pandemic, according to a report from McKinsey & Company.
Past data is continually updated by the State’s health department.
| Day in January | New Confirmed Case |
|---|---|
| 1 | 1,260 |
| 2 | 2,403 |
| 3 | 2,087 |
| 4 | 2,595 |
| 5 | 3,987 |
| 6 | 3,922 |
| 7 | 4,041 |
| 8 | 2,288 |
| 9 | 2,230 |
| 10 | 2,264 |
| 11 | 3,260 |
| 12 | 3,160 |
| 13 | 2,705 |
| 14 | 2,657 |
| 15 | 1,818 |
| 16 | 1,702 |
| 17 | 1,215 |
| 18 | 1,768 |
| 19 | 2,592 |
| 20 | 2,462 |
| 21 | 2,082 |
| 22 | 1,614 |
| 23 | 927 |
| 24 | 850 |
| 25 | 1,719 |
| 26 | 1,396 |
| 27 | 1,134 |
| 28 | 908 |
| 29 | 634 |
| 30 | 264 |
| 31 | 555 |
